Public Safety

SUNSET BEACH—Police have made several arrests and charges in the past few days.

On May 9, David Sanchez-Raminez, 19, of Ocean Isle Beach was charged with DWI, no operator’s license and no insurance.

On May 8, Alan David Pheimer Jr., 49, of Sunset Beach, was arrested on two outstanding warrants from another municipality during an officer service call at Bridge Grill. He was taken to Brunswick County Detention Center on $1,500 secured bond.

Agents with the Brunswick County Vice Narcotics Unit made the following arrests last week:

•Mary Lee Hargrove, 72, of 2573 Oak Shore Drive, Supply, was arrested May 3 for trafficking Hydrocodone. Hargrove has been charged with three counts of trafficking opium or heroin, maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of distributing controlled substances and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center, where she was placed under a $100,000 secured bond.

SHALLOTTE—Jan. 18, 2005, is a day Larry Prince won’t soon forget. It was the day his son, Boiling Spring Lakes Police Officer Mitch Prince, was killed in the line of duty.

Just as Christopher William’s family won’t soon forget June 16, 2006, the day the Wilmington Police officer was killed, the family of Richard Matthews won’t soon forget Feb. 18, 2009, when another Wilmington police officer was killed.

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.
The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

SHALLOTTE—Shallotte Police are searching for a suspect involved in a check scam.

Shallotte Police Sgt. Eric King said a male suspect has been repeatedly using stolen checks and IDs at the Shallotte Walmart.

“The case involves the suspect using victim’s checking account numbers that have been taken from the victim’s mailboxes in Brunswick County area and the suspect uses the victim’s ID number and makes a fake ID card, which he shows at Walmart when asked for ID,” King explained.

BOLIVIA—A Supply woman has joined her son in jail after attempting to bring him a weapon while in custody.

According to Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson April Stanley, Delphia Mae Marlow Bryant, 76, of 1820 Stone Chimney Road, was arrested for attempting to smuggle a weapon to her son, murder suspect Craig Bryant, in the Brunswick County Detention Center.

A Brunswick County Sheriff’s deputy was injured in a wreck when an impaired driver ran into his vehicle.

Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Spokesperson Sgt. April Stanley said deputy Jeremy Borowski “placed himself in harm’s way” to protect other drivers on the road from the impaired driver, who was later arrested.

Stanley said around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, the county’s 911 center received several calls about a reckless driver traveling east in the westbound lane on U.S. 74-76 in Leland.